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Date: 28 February 2007 16:59:09
Can you learn things by heart easily?
I cannot, with a few rare exceptions.
One of life's great frustrations for me is not being able to remember the words to songs, hymns, poems, or anything.
Things I do know by heart (mostly) are as follows:
The first stanza of Daffodils by William Wordsworth
The Lord's Prayer (4 versions, but I never know which is going to appear)
Gaudete - Steeleye Span, but I don't know which order the verses come
Beatles Red Album
My Jesus, My Saviour
On Ilkley Moor (I even know which order the verses come in)
The first 32 decimal places of pi (used to know the 1st hundred, but I am getting a bit slack).
Sundry other scraps of liturgy and hymns